Hair protecting headband



April 1933- J. J. DORSEY El AL HAIR PROTECTING HEADBAND Filed Jan.

yVENTOR 5 Patented Apr. 25, 1933 UNITED s'rA'i'Es PATENT OFFICE JOHN .T. DORSEY AND DOROTHY DORSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIR PROTECTING HEADBAND Application. filed January 20, 1932. Serial No. 587,728.

This device is a quick attachable and detachable band to be used on the head especially by women and particularly under the following circumstances.

According to the, prevailing styles, many women dress their hair in what is known as a wave which may be more or less of the permanent type. Such a wave is intended .to remain in place and to keep the hair sightly for several days.

Another prevailing style is the use of cosmetics particularly cream and greases of various types in the application of which unsightliness is caused if it gets in near the edges of the hair, around the forehead, temples and ears.

Besides this, when washing her face with ordinary water if the hair is dressed, particularly with a permanent or temporary wave, the water gets in around the edges at the forehead, temples and ears interfering with the appearance and making it unsightly.

The device can instantly be put on or 25 taken off with wet, dusty or greasy hands without disarranging, wetting, powdering or greasing the hair or the skin.

We are aware that there are various types of bands or bandages which go around the head thus to a certain extent protecting the hair although some of them instead of protecting disarrange it, but this device is of such a character that it can be instantly attached or detached and when in place, being preferably waterproof, it will stay in position just covering the edges of the hair around the forehead, temples and ears and rotecting the dressed hair behind them om cream, cosmetics or water as the case may be.

The device consists substantially of a waterproof elastic band or strip cut in such a' way that it will cover the hair in the center of the forehead as well as where it usually recedes and also in front of and behind the ears where there is usually a special rowth. It is so, made that there are suita le flaps or tongues which are stiffened or otherwise according to their position which automatically and without effort .ferred form of device on a human head.

particular functions automatically.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of our preferred form of device in place on a human head.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of our pre- Fig. 3 is a back elevation of our preferred form of device on a human head.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of our device removed from the head and laid out flat.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of our preferred type of fasteners showing also a protecting tongue.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of a stiflener for the flap in front of an ear which we prefer to use and also shows in section the lower folded or reinforced rolled edge which we also prefer to use.

Fig. 7 is a plan view similar to Fig. 4 showing a modified form of our device.

Fig. 8 is a perspective of another kind of elastic reinforced bottom edge.

Fig. 9 is a sectional detail of another type of quick action fastening deviceshown in perspective.

Fig. 10 is a plan view showing a modified form of stiflener.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged sectional view on line 11-l1 of Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a side elevation of a modified form of our band in position on a human head.

In the drawing, H represents a human head set on theneck N and having cars such as E, a forehead F and hair W. The edges of the hair are indicated as follows:

At 40 on the forehead, the hair ordinarily comes down while it recedes somewhat on each side at 41 and 42 and then comes down again at 43 and 44 in front of the ears and again at 45 and 46 back of the ears, while at 47 in the neighborhood of the neck, there may be a distinct line at the edge of the hair or it may merge into the neck.

The body B of our band is made of a strip of waterproof elastic material preferably rubber and has saw teeth 5 alongits top edge while alon its bottom edge at 7 it is reinforced pre erably by forming the rubber at 7 in the mould a little thicker than in the rest of the bod strip 19, as shown in Fig. 6. This rein orcin should be elastic and ma also be pro uced as shown in Fig. 8 by ending over the part 30 of the lower edge of a band such as 31 and fastening it in place as by rubber cement 32 or b vulcanizing.

A the bottom front is a central pro ection 9 intended to cover the edge of the hair and on each side at 3 and 4, there are cut away parts intended to fit just outside the parts 41 and 42 of the hair ed e whlle at 23 and 24 there are downward y pro ecting flaps which cover the hair edges 43 and 44 in front of the ears. At 25 and 26 the band also extends down so as to fit slightly outside the edges 45 and 46 of the hair behind the ears.

The saw teeth 5 helps to make the top edge more elastic than the bottom edge and are not as likely to disarrange the hair as a straight edge would disarrange it.

The lower back ends 27 and 28 of the band are intended to come well down at. the back of the neck N covering the hair 47 in that vicinity.

At each end of the body B are the spreaders S and T which are preferably made of relatively thin flat and flexible material such as celluloid and include a piece such as 11 or 12 held in position at the ends 21 and 22 which are formed with loops which as shown in Fig. 5 may be made by holding the material back and fastening it, as by vulcanlzing or cementing. A hole is made at 50 through which a hook like 1 or an eye like 2 can project. This hook and eye can quickly be engaged or disengaged and the ends of the spreaders, being somewhat flexible, Wlll. fit in the curve at the back of the neck.

Preferably there is fastened under one end such as 22 a tongue such as 10 which may be of the same material as the band B of rubber or may be of thin celluloid or \other similar material which will not chafe the back of the neck. This tongue extends under fastening devices such as the hook 1 and eye 2 when they are connected and protects the neck from being chafed by them. This ton ue also permits the fastening devices to be connected or disconnected with soiled or wet hands without touching the hair.

Preferably also we fasten on the inside or the outside of the flaps 23 and 24, in front of the cut away parts, by means of vulcaniz ,ing or otherwise, the strips 33 or 34 of some tou h flexible and elastic material like celluloi hard rubber or wood, which will hold these flaps down and close to the temples.

The inside of the band should be smooth as a matter ofcomfort and the lower ed e should fit the head ti htly to protect t e hair and to accom lisfi these purposes we use stifi but flexib e stifieners in the flaps before the ears. Stri s such as 33 or 34 can be moulded into t 0 body or as shown in Figs. 10 and 11, hollow projections such as 72 as well as the reinforcement 71 of the ed e can be moulded into the bod 70.

referabl 'wecan use such stiffening devices and a so the reinforced bottom edge, but we may dis ense with both and may provide other en fastening devices such as shown in Fi% 7.

In Fig. 7, is a band of waterproof elastic material such as rubber the top edge 15 being straight instead of having saw teeth. Band D has cut away parts 13 and 14 for the cars which are not reinforced at the front nor is the bottom edge 16 reinforced.

The spreaders 17 and 18 are made of round wire instead of flat celluloid and extend through loops made by folding over the ends, the wire being then bent in from the ends in two legs which come together as a hook in 17 and as an eye in 18.

Instead of a hook and eye, we may as shown in Fig. 9, use any other type of quick action fastening device such as the cooperating snap fastener parts 62 and carried by spreaders 61 and 64 at the ends 60 and 63 of a band similar to the one shown in Fi s. 4 and 7.

s shown, these spreaders 61 and 64 are merely thickened strips extendin from top to bottom of the band thus com ining the functions of the spreaders such as 11 and loop such as 22.

In Fig. 12, we show how our band can be modified in such a way that instead of bein cut away for the ears, it can fit around and over the hair and ears.

Band is made of wate roof elastic material at the end provided with co-operating quick action fastening devices such as 17 and 18 shown in Fig. 7 and cut away at the bottom edge as at 81 to fit the hair line and having at each end spreaders such as 83 which may be similar to 11 and 12 or similar to 61 and 64. Instead of being cut away, band 80 is extended at 82 to go over the ears and hair and the flap in front of each ear is stiffened at 83 as by having the bottom edge reinforced in a manner similar to 71. As shown, it tapers to front and back.

We claim:

1. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having saw teeth along the top edge and being reinforced at the bottom edge and shaped with a central projection, cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the car parts being stifl'ened, and spreaders at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye, there being a tongue extending from under one end under its hook.

2. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material reinforced at the bot tom edge and shaped with a central projection, cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stifiened, and spreaders at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye, there being a tongue extending from under one end under its hook.

3. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having saw teeth along the top edge and being reinforced at the bottom edge and shaped with a central pro jection, cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stiffened, and spreaders at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye.

4. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having saw teeth along the top edge and being reinforced at the bottom edge and shaped with a central pro jection, cut away parts for the ears, and spreaders at the ends formed with cooperating quick action fastening devices.

5. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having saw teeth along the top edge and being shaped with a central projection, cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stifiened, and spreaders at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye.

6. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material reinforced at the bottom edge and shaped with cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stidened, and spreaders 'at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye.

7. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stiffened, and Spreaders at the ends, one including a hook and the other an eye.

8. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material reinforced at the bottom edge and shaped with cut away parts for the ears, the flaps forming the front of the ear parts being stiffened, and Spreaders at the ends formed with cooperating quick action fastening devices.

9. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material having cut away parts for the ears, and spreaders at the ends formed with cooperating quick action fastenin'g devices.

10. A head band formed of a strip of waterproof elastic material so shaped as to fit the edge of the hair and to fit the ears, the flaps forming the front of the part which fits each ear being stiffened, and

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JUHN J. DQERSEY. DQRUTHY DURSEY. 

